On Sunday, 27 July 2014 at 13:17:42 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
The cent and ucent keywords have been reserved since... well...
certainly before the first D1 (as opposed to D0.xx) release
[2]. But that's all they have ever seemed to be. Just
reserved keywords that give odd errors when you try to use them.
Yes, I truly wish those would be supported - not only to use them
directly, but at least as fallback for e.g. safe multiplication
(cent x = long * long; if(x > long.max) throw exception;)
From the language reference I had strongly expected that cent and
ucent are supported - a look into phobos destroyed that hope :-/
